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New Zealand is a party to a number of completed free trade and investment agreements. These are: the Australia-New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Agreement (1983); the New Zealand-Singapore Closer Economic Partnership (2001); the New Zealand-Thailand Closer Economic Partnership (2005); the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership or P4 (2005); the New Zealand-China Free Trade Agreement (2008), the Australia-ASEAN-New Zealand free trade agreement (2009) and the New Zealand-Hong Kong Closer Economic Partnership (2010).
New Zealand is currently negotiating FTAs with Malaysia and the GCC, while a New Zealand-India deal is under study. While talk of a US-New Zealand FTA was hotly resisted and never got off the ground, partly because of New Zealand’s anti-nuclear policy, the expansion of the P4 agreement to include the US (Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement) threatens to bring important changes to New Zealand policies. New Zealand has also signed a number of IPPAs (bilateral investment treaties) with Chile, Argentina, Hong Kong, China and others. last update: March 2010 Articles
Key talks trade with South Korea
| 4-July-2010
Trade will be top of the agenda when Prime Minister John Key meets with President Lee Myung-bak and Prime Minister Chung Un-chan in Korea later today.
Businesses urged to capitalise on free trade deals
| 17-June-2010
New Zealand should be looking to become the food bowl of Asia and use free trade agreements to do it, according to financial services firm KPMG. 
New Zealand, the world’s biggest dairy exporter, agreed to begin work on a free trade accord with Russia, the world’s largest market for butter and cheese. Any such deal will include Belarus and Kazakstan, according to NZ trade minister Tim Groser.
Meat and Wool NZ want free trade deal with Korea
| 17-May-2010
Meat & Wool New Zealand is anxious to see a free trade agreement with South Korea completed as soon as possible so that this country’s beef trade can compete on an equal footing there.
Trade deal with Hong Kong signed
| 29-March-2010
New Zealand and Hong Kong will today sign a closer economic partnership(CEP) agreement, building on the free trade agreement with China.
Hong Kong free trade agreement to be signed
| 23-March-2010
Trade Minister Tim Groser will sign a free trade agreement with Hong Kong when he visits there on Monday.
NZ must show benefits to Europe of free trade deal, says EU
| 23-February-2010
If New Zealand wants a free trade agreement with the European Union it will first have to explain what is in it for Europe, a senior EU trade official says. 
New Zealand journalist Gordon Campbell on why free trade with the US is more Monty Python than Holy Grail 
"You’re talking about a billion people that we largely don’t export anything to now," Meat and Wool New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen said
NZ begins talks for free trade deal with India
| 1-February-2010
India and New Zealand have begun negotiations for a free trade agreement which Trade Minister Tim Groser says will put New Zealand in a prime place to benefit from India’s economic growth. |
Le stand de l’UE à la conférence sur le sida "saisi" par des militants défenseurs des génériques
| 21-July-2010
Statement by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka on the U.S.- South Korea Trade Agreement
| 30-June-2010
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